By Benjamin Akoto/ Naa Shormie Donkor, GNA
Koforidua (E/R), Nov. 21, GNA – The Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC) as part of its training regime for the students has embarked on a regional tour of the Eastern Region.
As part of the five days tour, 36 officers made up of staff and students of the college would visit five districts including Asuogyaman, Fanteakwa, New Abirem, East Atiwa Districts and round it up in the New Juaben Municipality.
The aim of the is “to study the decentralization administration and the empowerment of the citizen for economic transformation”.
Mr Eric Kwakye Darfour, the Eastern Regional Minister, said about 1.3 billion people in Africa are living below the poverty line and it is the responsibility of all governments on the continent to put in place measures to ensure an accelerated pace of development.
Mr Darfour said the tour would enlighten the students on various decentralization concepts including how it works in the country and to see how through decentralization poverty has been reduced.
He said the officers would also learn more about the traditional systems in the Eastern Region adding that there are eleven paramount chiefs in the region and each has sub- chiefs heading various towns and villages.
Mr Kwakye said chieftaincy is very important, because before independence, the leadership of the nation was through the traditional systems, but colonization imposed on the people the central governance system, but after independence the chieftaincy system has been maintained.
GAFCSC Brigadier General Augustine K. Boimah, the Deputy Commandant, said there are 68 students in the college, 41 of them are officers from the Ghana Armed Forces.
He said the rest of the 27 are from allied African countries including Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cote d’ Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
He said some of the students are in Ashanti and Upper East regions for a similar tour.
The Commander said at the end of the one year course, students will be awarded with two certificates, one in a military pass course and the other in MSC in Defense and International Politics.
The students and staff as part of their engagement with the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC) and heads of institutions, were taken by a team of resource persons through the evaluation of the impact of decentralization on poverty alleviation and youth unemployment.
The assessment of the extent of financial decentralization in support or rural development and examination of the effectiveness of decentralized security architecture in crime prevention, safety and security.
The last presentation was on the analysis of the place and role of chieftaincy in the decentralized administration at the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.
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